What was the name of The Philippines prior to the spanish era?

[burn777]

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daghan man kaayo results sa google.. unsay tinood?

kinsay naa solid answer?

https://www.google.com/search?q=what...w=1440&bih=795

[kit_cebu]

hahaha..i never seem to ask myself this question..interesting..

[necrotic freak]

unsa jud kaha?

[alter-ego]

I think the pre-Spanish Philippine writing system at that time is the Alibata(Baybayin).. kung unsa'y name imo makita nga Alibata, mao siguro na.

[jovipeorliohacokijo]

i think the pre-spanish philippine writing system at that time is the alibata(baybayin).. Kung unsa'y name imo makita nga alibata, mao siguro na.

m a h a r l i k a

[balipseyev]

Lahi-Lahi man siguro ang name sa taga lugar sauna, kay daghan baya mga small kingdoms/balangay ug mga sultanates... This is Evident sa kadaghan nato na mga dialects...

Murag mga Kastila ra gyud nag ngalan sa Pilipinas collectively...

Parts of what is now the Philippines had/has Malaysian, Chinese, and Islamic ancestral names associated with them as early the 13th century.

Luzon had a Chinese name which Wikipedia says is PINYIN, but more notable in Chinese history is Mindoro (called MA'I) which served as more of a centralized hub for Chinese trade.

Visayas (more correctly BISAYA) was named from a standardizing effect from Borneo culture. BISAYA has ties to Malaysian, Srivijayan, and Chinese cultures previous to Spaniard influence.

MINDANAO (once it's own sultanate) was named after a Malaysian explorer and is both Malaysian and Islamic in influence. The Wikipedia article on it is pretty cool.

Examining differences, MA'I was more based more on simple geographic terminology for trading purposes as opposed to the more complex sociopolitical identity of MINDANAO. BISAYA had combination of both.

The names of these specific areas of the Philippines stayed this way for more than a couple hundred years.

Wikipedia history on the Philippine Islands claim ISLAS DE SAN LAZARO as possibly the first name for the area known as the Philippines. However, this is incorrect because Magellan was referring to the group of islands already known as BISAYA.

Thirty years later, the name LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS was given to the group of economically networked islands connected through trade in honor of the second king Philip of Spain.

The Philippines, etymologically, did not actually have a name before it became the Philippines. As LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS was the first time the islands would be known collectively as a group.

Source(s):
Luzon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mindoro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bisaya (Borneo) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Srivijaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sultan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sultanate of Maguindanao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[balipseyev]

In so far as recorded history is concerned, Ma-i seems to be the earliest name under which the Philippines was known to the Chinese traders, who were coming here in the tenth century A.D., attracted by such articles of commerce as yellow wax, cotton, pearls, tortoise shell, betel nuts, abaca, and so forth. For these Chinese would barter porcelain, trade gold, iron censers, lead, colored glass, beads, and iron needles. The natives enjoyed the reputation of being exceptionally honest in their their business dealings with the celestials. The name Ma-i was still very frequently used in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and probably long thereafter.


According to Jose Rizal (national hero), on Ptolemy's map, which was made before the second century A.D., the group of islands now known as the Philippines was called Tawalisi. Ptolemy got his knowledge from a sailor named Hippalus, the same man who discovered the monsoons in the southeastern Asiatic regions. In later editions, however, there is group of islands in about the location of the Philippine group which bears in different editions the names of Maniolas, Barusas or Baroussai and Puloan or Palawan. In connection with these different names it is often stated that they were used in turn to designate the whole group. But according to Rizal, Baroussai is the Visayas in Ptolemy's maps. The name Puloan in the edition of 1540 must have been the name originally borne by the island of Palawan, while Maniolas, whch is very similar to Maynilad,

Source:
Philippine History

[kuyabog]

bro, sailor man gyud ka, mas authoritative ang imo knowledge ani kay namo nga ordinaryong mga molupyo ra.

sa akong paminaw, murag wala may philippines as a country prior sa spanish arrival. tribo tribo pa man gud sa una. wala ang concept sa country.

[CocoCrunch]

^i believe natives didnt care to name any place except their own tribe. the only thing they care are their survival and *** este procreation.

[balipseyev]

^ go and multiply baya ingun sa ginoo... hehehe